Patch Issue? Please Help

I recently re-formatted my PC with windows 7 and yesterday i was in the mood for some good ol' AoT so i installed the game and gameranger and fired it up. the first game i joined, i was given a "different version of the game" error. thinking i had forgotten to patch, i applied the 1.03 patch, re-cracked it, an tried it again...no dice. i then ran the compatibility wizard for both GR and AoM, changed to run for winXP SP2 as admin, and still no joy

the funny thing is that i can play in voobly without any issues at all!! the exact error i get on joining games on GR is; "you cannot join the game as the host has a different version of the game", or something like that. my game shows ver 1.03 and again, plays fine on voobly. windows 7 professional here.